A / Representation / of the / Impiety & Immorality / of the / English Stage, / with / Reasons for putting a Stop thereto: / and some Questions Addrest to / those who frequent the Play-/ Houses. / London, / Printed, and are to be Sold by J. Nutt / near Stationers-Hall, 1704 / [enclosed within double frame of rules]
Collation: A8 B4. Pp. [ 1-] 24. P. [1] title, as above; p. [2] blank; pp. 3-24 text.
Three editions were issued in 1704. If we take the author's words literally, the pamphlet was written between the "Great Storm" of November 26, 1703 and the day of fasting decreed by Queen Anne for January 19, 1704. According to Arthur Bedford (The Evil and Danger of Stage Plays ... London, 1706) the pamphlet was published "At the Time of the Fast ..."
Colton Storm
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Editors of the Augustan Reprint Society wish to thank the following people for assistance rendered during the first year of the society's publication:
- Mr. Warner G. Rice, Director of the Library, University of Michigan.
- Mr. Stanley Pargellis, Director of the Newberry Library, Chicago.
- Mr. William Jackson, Director of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Mr. R. B. Downs, Director of the Library, University of Illinois.
- Mr. Leslie Bliss, Director of the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
- Mr. Colton Storm, Curator of Manuscripts and Maps, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
- Miss Ella M. Hymans, Curator of Rare Books, General Library, University of Michigan.
- Alvina Woodford, Photostat Department, General Library, University of Michigan.
- Cal Markham, Edwards Bros., Ann Arbor.
The Augustan Reprint Society
announces its schedule of publications for the SECOND YEAR
May, 1947: Series I, no. 3—John Gay's THE PRESENT STATE OF WIT and a section on wit from THE ENGLISH THEOPHRASTUS. With an Introduction by Donald Bond. July, 1947: Series II, no. 3—Rapin's DE CARMINE PASTORALI, translated by Creech. With an Introduction by J. E. Congleton. Sept. 1947: Series III, no. 3—T. Hanmer's (?) SOME REMARKS ON THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET. With an Introduction by Clarence D. Thorpe. Nov., 1947: Series I, no. 4.—Corbyn Morris's ESSAY TOWARDS FIXING THE TRUE STANDARDS OF WIT, etc. With an Introduction by James L. Clifford. Jan., 1948: Series II, no. 4.—Thomas Purney's DISCOURSE ON THE PASTORAL. With an Introduction by Earl Wasserman. Mar., 1948: Series III, no. 4—Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.